[R] [R-pkgs] New package "list" for analyzing listsurveyexperiments

[Bert Gunter]

-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On
Behalf Of Hadley Wickham
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 12:15 AM
To: Yves Rosseel
Cc: r-help at r-project.org; richard_raubertas at merck.com
Subject: Re: [R] [R-pkgs] New package "list" for analyzing
listsurveyexperiments

>> For some reason package writers seem to prefer maximally uninformative
>> names for their packages.  To take some examples of recently announced
>> packages, can anyone guess what packages 'FDTH', 'rtv', or 'lavaan'
>> do?  Why the aversion to informative names along the lines of
>> 'Freq_dist_and_histogram', 'RandomTimeVariables', and
>> 'Latent_Variable_Analysis', respectively?
>
> As an author of a package with a maximally uninformative name (lavaan), I
> like to believe that strange names can have strange attractions. 

-- Hmm... Strange attractors. We're into quantum physics now ... :0

-- Bert


After all,
> you did notice the package, didn't you?

Plus you can google it!

Hadley

-- 
Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair
Department of Statistics / Rice University
http://had.co.nz/

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